Example sentences of "i [vb base] [be] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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1 | I think that as professional drivers we would all w look at that and s and see that Er I mean been out with very many lorry drivers and er that is the way that I 've sort of been with the majority of the guys that I 've been in . |
2 | Just got erm , I mean was out in the stick I like to just half a dozen little flight of stairs perhaps with a dozen steps |
3 | I like being in with my family . |
4 | He said I like being in with me boys . |
5 | I remember being down there watching Amityville II alone at midnight when there was a thunderous knock on the front door . |
6 | Oh yeah , it 's getting quite cold , I reckon were in for some snow . |
7 | ‘ Because I find being out with you useful . |
8 | Which I suppose is in . |
9 | I mean I think been up |
10 | Erm , so playgroups I feel need , erm , particularly for certain children , they need to find assisted places of some sort , because say it 's one eighty a session , and they need several sessions a week , if they 're to benefit from it , and one eighty or one seventy or whatever the cost is , which I think is round about that figure , erm , is not something that a family normally would have priority , the , the kind of family who has to have erm , needs , special needs anyway themselves . |
11 | We got a cold gust of er icy winds when that I think was out in blossom then there would n't be many conkers . |
12 | I prefer being out of doors , though , that 's my trouble , and writing takes up so much time . |
13 | But I 've been up all night . |
14 | I 've been up all night , thinking . |
15 | Wait until I 've been up and seen your Grandma Coates . ’ |
16 | ‘ I 've been up for the past three hours , ’ he said , looking me up and down rather coldly . |
17 | ‘ What I say , constable , is ’ — and now it was Arthur speaking — ‘ there 's such a thing as 'arassment , that 's what they 've told me when I 've been up afore the old bloke . |
18 | I 've been up to my eyes in mannequins and haute couture . ’ |
19 | Then he admitted as he shovelled manure at a tree-planting ceremoney in his Huntingdon constituency : ‘ It occurs to me I 've been up to my neck in this stuff for the last month . ’ |
20 | Durie said : ‘ I 've been up front on my own for a few games . |
21 | ‘ I 've been up to my ears , ’ he says . |
22 | Sometimes when I 've been up early at home walking in the woods and come upon a roe deer close to , motionless , its alarm and scenting has reminded me of her . |
23 | I 've been up all night working on these . ’ |
24 | I 've been up since the crack of dawn . ’ |
25 | And I 've been up till , I 've been paining me all night Doctor , |
26 | Well mainly cos of me mum of an evening , cos she 's not been too good , so I 've been up and down . |
27 | I 've been up for a bath and we 've been looking at the room I shall occupy . |
28 | I 've been up here tw twenty-three years and I did n't go out till I came here so I should say I was about twenty-two years ago I started back to work . |
29 | Well the , the er the Guilds I can speak now because I 've been up to a higher level , I 've been on the section and Birmingham is a very big area . |
30 | And it must be , I 've been up here twenty-three years , it must be getting on for thirty years old that teapot and er I could n't have afforded that money for that stainless steel teapot , as those days , but I had it with my divi . |